Themed street names

[twinsfan87]

I'm working on a project for Mn/DOT in the small town of Cosmos, MN where the streets are named after constellations, planets, and other space-related things. Apparently they also have a water tower in the shape of a rocket (though I haven't personally seen it)!

[JustDrive]

Fresno, CA has a section near downtown named after the California counties.

[NE2]

This one's cool but flawed: http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=28.602712,-81.437032&spn=0.004295,0.008256&gl=us&t=m&z=18
What idiot put Haiti south of the equator?

[agentsteel53]

This one's cool but flawed: http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=28.602712,-81.437032&spn=0.004295,0.008256&gl=us&t=m&z=18
What idiot put Haiti south of the equator?

more terrible: none of the routes named "circle" are actually circles, and three out of four change names just for crossing the equator.  terrible design. 

[NE2]

none of the routes named "circle" are actually circles

They're circles with sticks, and all the driveways are on the circular parts.

three out of four change names just for crossing the equator

All four do (Bermuda Circle is across from Easter). I think you missed what I was saying - all the islands are in the correct place WRT the equator except Haiti.

[agentsteel53]

They're circles with sticks, and all the driveways are on the circular parts.

aka a dead-end with a cul-de-sac.  I don't suppose "Lollipop" is a standard road name suffix?  they should probably be "Court", which seems to be a fairly standard way of referring to a small dead-end street.

All four do (Bermuda Circle is across from Easter). I think you missed what I was saying - all the islands are in the correct place WRT the equator except Haiti.

oh, I got that.  I was just noting that, from the perspective of making addresses easy to find, this entire thing was a failure.  even if we replaced Haiti with Pitcairn Island we'd be navigationally boned.

I think they probably meant Tahiti but had a complete brain fart.

[NE2]

They're circles with sticks, and all the driveways are on the circular parts.

aka a dead-end with a cul-de-sac.  I don't suppose "Lollipop" is a standard road name suffix?  they should probably be "Court", which seems to be a fairly standard way of referring to a small dead-end street.

The cul-de-sac has a huge circular island in the middle, large enough that the distance around the circle is longer than the rest of the street.

[JMoses24]

Ross Township, Ohio has an area where streets are named after Birds.

http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=39.313611,-84.645&spn=0.1,0.1&t=m&q=39.313611,-84.645

[english si]

oh, I got that.  I was just noting that, from the perspective of making addresses easy to find, this entire thing was a failure.  even if we replaced Haiti with Pitcairn Island we'd be navigationally boned.

Surely it makes them easier to find an address? I arrive on Equator Road, heading for an address on Borneo Close. After passing Papua and Sulawesi (Sumatra being the 4th one at the end of Equator Road - added bonus of correct E-W order!), I see that Borneo is in both directions - which way do I go: left or right?

Of course, you can put what numbers are on which side on the sign, but far quicker to read and process would be if each of the 8 little closes/courts/circles had different names. Sure, if we're talking about through routes, then a random name change will be annoying, but these are cul-de-sacs and having the same name for opposite cul-de-sacs is just unnecessarily complicating matters.

[theline]

Now that this topic has been fully necroed: a neighborhood in Mishawaka, IN that was built after World War II is filled with names of WWII locales: Leyte, Bastogne, Palau, Normandy, etc. I suppose the builder felt all those vets with GI Bill money to spend would feel at home.

[cpzilliacus]

Fresno, CA has a section near downtown named after the California counties.

This is quite common in Virginia.  More than a few places around the Commonwealth have neighborhoods with street names for some of its counties, including Springfield in Fairfax County. 

[yakra]

I don't think this was intentional, but nonetheless:
https://maps.google.com/?ll=43.913609,-69.823834&t=h&z=20

[formulanone]

I don't think this was intentional, but nonetheless:
https://maps.google.com/?ll=43.913609,-69.823834&t=h&z=20

Dike Road should be "Levee Road", then...

[empirestate]

I don't think this was intentional, but nonetheless:
https://maps.google.com/?ll=43.913609,-69.823834&t=h&z=20

Dike Road should be "Levee Road", then...

I don't get it.

[NE2]

http://www.google.com/search?q=plant+page

[kurumi]

I don't think this was intentional, but nonetheless:
https://maps.google.com/?ll=43.913609,-69.823834&t=h&z=20

Dike Road should be "Levee Road", then...

I don't get it.

We apologize for leaving you dazed and confused.

[roadman65]

I don't think this was intentional, but nonetheless:
https://maps.google.com/?ll=43.913609,-69.823834&t=h&z=20

This one should also be posted in the ironic street name thread as it is quite an amazement.

[agentsteel53]

I'll bet it was intentional.  if not by the subdivision owner, then by someone who noticed that the two small connector roads needed names...

[theline]

I don't think this was intentional, but nonetheless:
https://maps.google.com/?ll=43.913609,-69.823834&t=h&z=20

This one should also be posted in the ironic street name thread as it is quite an amazement.

Amazing, but not ironic. It's not my intention to start yet another dicussion of the meaning of "ironic." Check that thread for more than enough of that.

[mgk920]

I don't think this was intentional, but nonetheless:
https://maps.google.com/?ll=43.913609,-69.823834&t=h&z=20

This one should also be posted in the ironic street name thread as it is quite an amazement.

Amazing, but not ironic. It's not my intention to start yet another dicussion of the meaning of "ironic." Check that thread for more than enough of that.

They also misspelled nearby 'Center St'.



Mike

[lepidopteran]

In the core of Downtown Toledo, the N-S streets are named for the Great Lakes, including mini lake St. Clair (Between Lake Michigan and Lake Erie).  The E-W streets are named for U.S. Presidents, though not in order.  Indeed, the main thoroughfare for West Toledo is Monroe St. (OH-51, former US-223)  The cardinal directions are off by about 30°, since the street grid is at an angle.

[empirestate]

In the core of Downtown Toledo, the N-S streets are named for the Great Lakes, including mini lake St. Clair (Between Lake Michigan and Lake Erie).

Hmm, including St. Clair? That would make seven names, wouldn't it? Superior, Michigan, Huron, St. Clair, Erie, Ontario, and Champlain.

Oh wait...I was making a joke there, but it turns out there actually is a Champlain St. in that series. I guess Toledo is on board with the Great Lake status for Champlain movement!

[Kacie Jane]

I came here to post this anyway, imagine my surprise to see Great Lakes being discussed!

But Bellingham -- nowhere near the Great Lakes -- has a sequence of Superior, Michigan, Ontario, St. Clair, Huron, Erie.  (Yes, ironically, it has a St. Clair, but no Champlain.  Also ironically, St. Clair is the longest of the six.)

In the same area, there are streets named after states: Kansas, Ohio, Iowa, Kentucky, Virginia, Carolina, Texas, Alabama, North (?), Connecticut, Maryland, Illinois, Indiana, Oregon.

These are perpendicular, so that Michigan (named after the lake) intersects about seven of the streets named after states.

There's also a Nevada Street (not part of a theme, but is part of an alphabet) west of the Great Lake streets that intersects several of the state streets.

[Dr Frankenstein]

Geldrop, Netherlands.

http://goo.gl/maps/i1J1w

[hotdogPi]

All names of towns. This extends past this map's borders.

Seabrook, New Hampshire. That is the Atlantic Ocean to the right.